Animal Pragmatist

from Live! Sessions at Grace by Katie Kuffel

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What's the use of this self-infiltration
My mind's meditations
when all that I do is sing songs of you?
But you were illuminated
My my mutilated
Sight of your person
My own constructed version
But I was learning and re-learning
Who I was, what I was yearnin' for anyways

I was an animal pragmatist
young, naive, always guided by consequence
And you were the trigger
And I was shot straight through from the start
For my practical actions bled dissatisfaction
When I passively gave you my heart

Because the first time you look upon yourself
Through the lens, through the glass of somebody else
All you see is the weight of your hunched frame
From that grotesque truth every person has to tame
That realization was the tar at my feet
So I lashed out thrashing false words between my teeth
And in that decay I breathed and bereaved
I became the wretched form I thought you saw me to be

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from Live! Sessions at Grace, released November 24, 2014

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Katie Kuffel Seattle, Washington

Katie Kuffel is singer-songwriter currently residing in Seattle. With a contemporary sound that draws from blues, jazz and folk music, she is creating innovative, and thoughtful material. Her background in classical cello and jazz piano allows her to blend her complex lyrics into a sound that is entirely unique. ... more

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